Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1998 15:26:49 -0500
From: "the rags of time..." <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      [WRITERS] INT: A List of lists slips out of the tent...

[the tent collapses into a clockwise cork screw, and you see Bass -- the
fish, not the ale -- from the Northern Hemisphere swimming madly upstream...
and in their wake, the curlicues of foam seem to spell letters that once
past, you can't slip on again...]

List Conservative
      No winner, just some folks to keep an eye on: Gene Chambers, Anthony,
      Robert Crawford

List Daddy
      Winner: (uncontested!) tink

List Diplomat
      Winner: Barbara Harris with 50% of the vote!
      Close runner-up's: Wolfess Elle, Arn
      " Agreeable?  Yuck!  Arn "

List Flirt (Award for Male and Female)
      Winner: Judy Ray (without contest!)

List Flirt (Award for Male)
      Winners: Paul Frankenstein and Anthony D split the field...

List "Gandalf" or Sage/The Merlin Award
      We four sages of WRITERS are: Marshall Gilula, Barbara Harris, Wes B.,
      Val
      (no winner, just candidates!)

List Kid
      Winner: Robyn Harris sweeps the field with 50% of the vote!
      Close Runner-up's: Robert Crawford, Anthony Dauer, Mat Ward

List Liberal
      Winner: Judy Ray with 50% of the vote!
      And leaning that way, we also find: Robert Crawford, Dustin Klein

List Lurker
      A triple-cross, hidden in the mists, between: Marshall Gilula,
      midnight, Jackee R.

List Mommy
      Winners: Tie between Woofess and Barbara Harris
      Honorable mentions: "Where did they all go?" and " MJ!!!!! (so what if
      she's not here anymore!)"

List Oldster (either chronologically or behaviorally)
      Winner: Phil Havey with 43% of the vote!
      Some other aged members: Gene Chambers, Elizabeth k, Val
      (incidentally, I believe Val is actually the oldest member of the list
      in terms of time spent on the list, although Marshall Gilula also has
      been around a while...)

[the tent wobbles, hot air spurts all-around, and as the world turns, the
tent unscrews and then reverses itself into a counter-clockwise thread, with
the bats and dingoes and didgeridoos of the southern hemisphere suddenly
clamoring for recognition in the midnight sun...]

"The friends that have it I do wrong
When ever I remake a song
Should know what issue is at stake,
It is myself that I remake."  William Butler Yeats

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